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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG063 : Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 626  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Pseudanthistiria
Species : Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.
Plant Location in Melghat : More especially in Chikhaldara, Tarubandha,Dhakna and Semadoh ranges in comparatively open situations  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Gondoli,
 
Synonym : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.) Hook.f.
Andropogon heteroclitus Nees
Anthistiria heteroclita Roxb.
Hypogynium heteroclitum (Roxb.) Roberty
Pseudanthistiria intermedia Birari & D'Cruz
Sorghum heteroclitum (Roxb.) Kuntze.
Description : Annuals or perennials. Culms 30-100 cm high, tufted, erect or geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5-20 x 0.2-0.8 cm, acuminate, rounded at base, midrib prominent, hirsute. Sheaths keeled. Ligules truncate, membranous. Panicles 10-25 cm long, narrow, congested, leafy. Sessile spikelets 1-2 in a raceme, linear-oblong, 2-3 mm long, awned, callus softly hairy; lower glume oblong or elliptic-oblong, 2-3 mm long, subcoriaceous, glabrous; upper glume linear-oblong, 2-3 mm long, acute, chartaceous, 3-nerved, keeled; lower floret wanting; upper floret bisexual; second lemma stipitate 1-2 mm long hyaline base of the awn, 1-nerved, awned, awn 20-25 mm long, slender; stamens 3, anthers c. 1 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets 2-3 in a raceme, elliptic, 3-4 mm long, awnless, softly hairy; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, hairy; lower glume elliptic, 3-4 x 1 mm, chartaceous, upto 11-nerved, sparsely hairy with tubercled hairs; upper glume elliptic-lanceolate, 3-3.5 x 1 mm, chartaceous, 3-nerved, margins hyaline; upper floret male; stamens 3, anthers 1-1.5 mm long.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :